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Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 
[No. 3, 
2nd Proposal. 
To add the. following clauses to rule 46. 
“ The Council shall have the power of appointing any other day 
not later than that day fortnight, for the annual meeting.” 
“ After the termination of the regular business of the annual meet¬ 
ing, the meeting may be considered an ordinary general meeting.” 
Under the rule as it now stands, the annual meeting must be held 
on one particular day and on no other. Experience has shown this to 
he inconvenient.—The Council, therefore, propose that a limited dis¬ 
cretion shall be conferred on them to alter the day when it appears 
expedient to do so. 
The object of the 2nd clause proposed in this amendment is to 
give greater interest to the January meeting. Few members are 
found to attend when the business is confined to routine official 
statements and reports. 
3rd Proposal. 
To omit clause 1 of Pule 60, which provides that the names of 
visitors allowed to be present at a meeting shall be read aloud by 
the chairman. 
This rule has fallen into abeyance, and as it is not considered 
desirable to enforce it, the Council recommend that it should be 
cancelled. 
Resolved that the July meeting be made special to decide on these 
proposals. 
The Council submitted the following report from the Meteorolo¬ 
gical Committee, and requested authority to address Government in 
the sense of the Committee’s recommendations. 
The Committee having had under their consideration the general 
measures to be adopted to further the objects with which they are 
specially concerned, have come to the following conclusions. 
The value of the study of meteorological phenomena in a scienti¬ 
fic and abstract point of view needs no discussion. Nor is the prac¬ 
tical importance of this science in any degree less great than that 
of any other branch of physical knowledge. 
Every where the occupations of man, whether on the land or on 
the sea, are intimately bound up with the changes of the seasons, 
with the fall of rain, with the directions and forces of the winds, and 
